Morehead City, North Carolina

===2020 census===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"
|+Morehead City racial composition<ref>{{Cite web|title=Explore Census Data|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=1600000US3744320&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|access-date=2021-12-24|website=data.census.gov}}</ref>
!scope="col"| Race
!scope="col"| Number
!scope="col"| Percentage
|-
!scope="row"| [[White (U.S. Census)|White]] (non-Hispanic)
| 7,492
| 78.4%
|-
!scope="row"| [[African American (U.S. Census)|Black or African American]] (non-Hispanic)
| 738
| 7.72%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]]
| 39
| 0.41%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]]
| 123
| 1.29%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]]
| 3
| 0.03%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Race (United States Census)|Other/Mixed]]
| 420
| 4.4%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]]
| 741
| 7.75%
|}
As of the [[2020 United States census]], there were 9,556 people, 4,428 households, and 2,276 families residing in the town.